The Last of Us is "Not A Zombie Game"..

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The Last of Us is "Not A Zombie Game"..

Well I already knew that by putting two & two together but for those that are wondering this game won't even be a survival horror game but more of a story telling love type of thing between a father & daughter.

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Very few details of The Last Of Us, the new Naughty Dog game revealed at the VGA’s over the weekend, have yet emerged. What we did seem to know is that it’s a game with zombies in it – certainly the trailer showed them hunting the game’s pair of lead characters. Yet the developer insists that The Last Of Us is not a zombie game. It’s not even a horror game, they say.

“[It's] not a zombie game,” said game director Bruce Straley.

“If the game was about the monsters, we would have not showed them [in the trailer],” added creative director Neil Druckmann. ”The story’s not about them, so [we thought] let’s get it out of the way.”

Insisting that “we’re not going for horror,” Druckmann said the game is instead a sort of love story – “not a romantic love story,” but “a love story about a father-daughter-like relationship.”

And speaking in a lengthy feature on Eurogamer, Druckmann admitted that the now-infamous Dead Island trailer had the team at Naughty Dog a little worried. “We saw it and we thought, wait a minute, someone else is doing this – it’s really moving, there’s this family that’s been torn apart.” It’s probably safe to assume that ND were pleased with the action-centric direction Dead Island ultimately took.

Doom thought that the trailer made it fairly obvious that it had little to almost nothing to do with the Walking Dead.

Doom runs a country, bitch! A nation of slaves! Dig you a grave! I'll make Umbrella look like Welfare, minimum wage! Doom is getting enraged! I come harder! Killed my ex-girlfriend and turned her into a suit of armor! Beat you to death with your legs, leave you in stitches, Marvel 2 is the shit, RE 5 is for bitches!

In the trailer you could see "zombie" like creatures, but it was easy to spot that they are enemies and not the main central point. Naughty Dog is a great story telling developer and it would be under them to do another run of the mill survival horror game

well this is good news now i just hope that this game's got co-op because that way maybe i can talk my friend into buying it he's not a big fan of horror games so this is should help convince him to get it,.. now i just need a bit of gameplay and im sold

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The more I read about this the more I am hopeful this game will be good. ND seems to get the fact that post-apocalyptia of this sort has become boring and derivative as dystopian fiction in general has become so cliche because the market has become so fucking over-saturated with the stuff.

I am happy that ND is coming out, not holding back any punches, and seems to be sticking to their guns that this is a story about the two people in it.

I still have my reservations because, unlike Uncharted, the setting for this game is not going to be capable of pushing the plot at all (since we don't actually see the "before" picture). Perhaps thats the point though, the one thing this setting does give them is the chance to really highlight the characters and their development.

If ND can pull this game off, they will garner a new level of respect from me and may actually usurp Valve atop my list (maybe).

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0-1: A game whose very existence is abhorrent to all things creative and intelligent.
2-4: A just plain bad game.
5-6: A game that has alot of mistakes, but is atleast playable and has some enjoyable sections. Good for a rent.
7: An average game, should be played at some point
8: A good game, should buy at some point
9: A great game, day-one purchase
10: A game that goes above and beyond the generation, its transcendent.

What are the odds that the dad dies in his daughters arms and the final scene is the girl walking off into the distance...

I think a more intense one would be both of the dying and then its just like this fade out with soft music then everyone would be like WTF MAN! I just went through all that and they die! Just a big ole'

Good. ND are fantastic story tellers, and work wonders with character relationships, I like the fact that they're exploring one that's different to the either romantically involved, or father-son like relationships they did with uncharted. Looking forward to this!